Judge Reed O’Connor
Northern Texas U.S. District Court
Reed Charles O’Connor was born in June 1965 in Houston, Texas. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Houston and earned his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law. He entered private practice.
He served as an assistant district attorney with the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office in Fort Worth for four years. He was the Assistant United States Attorney in that district for 11 years. During that time, he also worked on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
O’Connor was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was confirmed by the Senate and received his commission in November 2007.
In the News…
Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern Texas U.S. District Court rejected a plea deal Boeing tried to make with the Department of Justice based on the DEI contingency of the agreement. The plea deal pertains to the fraud case involving the 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people.
Judge O’Connor said the court’s hands would have been tied by requiring it to consider diversity in appointing an independent monitor to oversee Boeing’s legal compliance going forward.
The judge noted “shifting and contradictory explanations” from prosecutors on how race or diversity could impact the monitor’s selection. He wrote, “In a case of this magnitude, it is in the utmost interest of justice that the public is confident this monitor selection is done based solely on competency.”
Both sides were ordered to update the court within 30 days.
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The Honorable Reed O’Connor
U.S. District Court for Northern District of Texas
501 West 10th Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
